Gift Ideas For Lab Rats

Out of Christmas present ideas for the scientist in your life? Here are ten options that any lab rat is sure to love.


  1. Earphones
  2. Now if only someone would invent non-tangling ones. Credit: CLF/CC/Flickr.

    Have you ever found yourself working late into the night with no one else around the lab? The clicking and whirring of lab equipment can be quite unnerving sometimes. This is when earphones come in especially handy to drown out the things that go bump in the night. Most scientists keep weird hours when their experiments require them to, so there’s a high chance that getting your scientist friends a pair of earphones will help keep eeriness—and lonesomeness—at bay.

Jeremy received his PhD from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he studied the role of the tumor microenvironment in cancer progression.

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